CTO interview - Tim Wood, putting the digital keystone into The Arch Co

The Arch Company is the UK's largest provider of real estate to the nation's small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), a vital sector in the economy. As the name suggests, The Arch Company owns and operates the spaces below the national rail lines. These may be Victorian-era structures, but the SMEs that depend on them expect a digital service. CTO Tim Wood is the architect of a self-developed enterprise platform that provides high-speed services to the business and its customers.

Railway arches and the bridges they support have become as much a part of the UK's national architectural culture as church spires, oast houses, and thatched cottages. The Arch Company has 5,300 spaces that are home to SMEs from diverse sectors such as hospitality, car maintenance, gyms, storage, and bars. Wood observes:

Nobody really cares about who occupies the 27th floor of a giant glass building, but ...